Perfectly broken and ready to Heal | Robin Youngson: TEDxTauranga

This video was recorded at TEDx Tauranga, NZ. After 10 years spent trying to effect change in health care systems around the world, Robin Youngson has learned that the key to changing people’s minds, no matter your cause, lies in connecting with, not battling against each other.

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Does it have to take tragedy, or a disaster for us to feel deeply connected as one species?

Gill Hicks AM

Look Into My Eyes | Fiona Kerr: TEDxNorthernSydneyInstitute

Fiona Kerr will teaches us how part of understanding and valuing the dynamics of human interaction is knowing when it offers advantages over the technology-based interaction which is becoming pervasive in human society. She asks, what is getting in the way, and how do we ensure we connect?

Stress and Compassion with James Doty, MD

In this video Prof James Doty, Clinical professor of Neurosurgery and the the Founder and Director of the Centre for Compassion and Altruism, Research and Education talk about the challenges of working in a stressful environment and how understanding the science of compassion can help.

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True compassion requires empathy: the ability to see the other’s worldview. Sympathy and posturing power plays masquerade as empathy for those looking to check a box. Creating change is much more.

Shannon Weber

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Compassionate people ask for what they need. They so no when they need to, and when they say yes they mean it. They’re compassionate because their boundaries keep them out of resentment.

Brené Brown

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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

Audre Lorde

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One of the criticisms I’ve faced over the years is that I’m not aggressive or assertive enough…or maybe because I’m empathetic I’m weak. I totally rebel against that. I refuse to believe that you cannot be compassionate and strong.

Jacinda Ardern

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What’s the strongest predictor of patient mortality rates? The % of staff working in well structured teams that have clear objectives and that meet regular and whose members work closely and effectively together.

NHS Staff Management and Health Service Quality

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Every time we diverge from the taken for granted way of being in the workforce and enact more compassion it is an act of mighty resistance. This is what it means to be a revolutionary.

Mary Freer

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It can hurt to go through life with your heart open, but not as much as it does to go through life with your heart closed.

Dr James Doty

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When you look up at someone you light up their brain and start synchronising with them. And we each have the power to rewire both our brains, and those of the people we interact with.

Dr Fiona Kerr

Episode 5: Compassion Transforms Us

Have you been elevated lately? Compassion is contagious and once we start to see good things happen we want to do more of them. We all want to be just like Jacinda Ardern right now.

Self–managed Teams: An insider’s story

Prof Helen Sanderson at TEDxUniversityofHertfordshire

Could compassion be the new zeitgeist?

The whole world is watching the New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Adern as she steps up and shows us what Compassionate Leadership looks like. I’ve been curiously pulling this apart over the last week to try and understand what it is about her response that is so generative, so brave and fearless and all at once full of tenderness.